Our blogs
Our Year 1 classroom, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 31st Aug 2023 @ 3:46pm
Hello and welcome to the Year 1 blog page!
I am excited to see everybody tomorrow morning and have just put some pictures of the classroom on so youcan get a sneaky look before tomorrow.
See you soon
Mrs Pratten :)
Our Year 3 Classroom, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 31st Aug 2023 @ 1:24pm
I am looking forward to welcoming you all back to school tomorrow. I am really excited to hear all about your summer holidays.
Here are a few photos of our classroom.
Mrs Simpson
Our Year 2 Classroom, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 31st Aug 2023 @ 1:13pm
Myself and Miss Harrison are looking forward to welcoming you back to school tomorrow.
Here are a few photos of our classroom.
Last day in Year 1, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Jul 2023 @ 1:00pm
A fun last day!!! Hope you all have a fantastic holiday, enjoy some family time.
Thank you so much for all our lovely cards and presents, you are very generous and it is much appreciated. X
Busy busy!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 18th Jul 2023 @ 10:27pm
The giraffes have been working hard this week. They have been busy each morning with phonics, guided reading and maths. In the afternoons they have embraced planning their own activities.
The pictures show their performances from Monday and their summer time ice cream parlour from today. They also created butterflies using coffee filter paper, wrote a story about a magic shell and created mazes in maths. They got to test out each other’s maze to see if they could reach the treasure.
Very proud giraffes!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 16th Jul 2023 @ 6:22pm
The giraffes had a great week which started with a visit to Longton library. Helen read us great pirate stories and the children got to make their own parrot.
We received a postcard from Mr. Dunne in Mexico and also a postcard from Polly the pirate who has gone off to explore China.
The children will not be sent home any homework or school reading books for the summer. We have talked to the children about reading their own books at home and Helen from the library has started all the class off on the summer reading challenge.
The giraffes have planned their afternoon sessions for their last week in Reception. On Monday they are having a performing afternoon. Dressing up, drama, puppet shows, dancing and singing.
On Tuesday they are having a summer themed afternoon. They will be building sandcastles, playing in water, playing outside games and then creating their own ice creams in our classoom ice cream parlour.
On Wednesday the children have planned a sports themed afternoon. We are hoping to have football, cricket, tennis, parachute games and a giant obstacle course which the children will be creating.
On Thursday we will be watching the year six dress rehearsal and on Friday the children will have drama and IT.
A busy week ahead!
The children have been feeling very proud in class. They are reading, writing, drawing, playing with their friends and sharing well. They enjoyed their art project which was recreating their own Andy Warhol piece of art.
We are talking a lot about year one and we have been bringing books and objects from their new classroom in September into class to talk about. We are having Mrs. Regan in class with us on Monday who will be the year one classroom assistant. I will pass on the ‘All about me’ books to Mrs. Pratten who will look at the books in September with your child. If you have any questions about year one or if you think your child is worrying please let us know so we can help.
Thank you
Brickcroft fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Jul 2023 @ 3:52pm
We had a lovely morning at the Brickcroft, we enjoyed our minibeast hunt, we found lots of different ones hiding inside the wood chippping and under logs.We enjoyed our colour marching treasure hunt and last but not least our pond dipping. We nearly caught something a bit different as Xander managed to topple in ....all was good and dry clothes provided!!!
Earth day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 6:33pm
We managed to survive the day with limited technology! Thank you if you walked to school this morning...keep it up all week if you can!
The Eco team went out with Mrs Jackson to tackle the willow arches.. they did a good job..KS1 chopped and KS2 tidied ...good team work!
Tribe of the year!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 7:11pm
Well done Lions, awarded tribe of the year this afternoon at our last Celebration Assembly!?
Journalist Giraffes!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 5th Jul 2023 @ 9:44pm
Tomorrow homework will be coming out in the paper folders. I have included our new sounds to learn as well as a sheet to complete for Earth Day on Monday. The children should have some ideas from our class book - Clean Up, which I hope they will share with you. We have been talking about the importance of using bins and recycling. I would be very grateful if you could show your child how you recycle at home.
Mrs. Pratten was delighted with the children on Tuesday afternoon. They really are fantastic and are loving their new adventures in Year One already.
This morning was spent playing party games, having ice lollies and bunny rabbit crisps. We had lots of fun and the children felt very proud of achieveing all of their class compliments.
Our class story has been about a little girl visiting her grandparents in Jamaica. Unfortunately the beach and the sea were full of litter which hurt the animals and sea life. The giraffes also looked at newspapers this week and we decided to write an important article for a newspaper linked to our story. Our journalist giraffes did an amazing job. Some of the headlines read 'The clean up crew saves the day' and 'Clean up crew to the rescue'.
Photographs will follow of the children copying the clean up crew around our school grounds. They were superstars!
Another fantastic afternoon in Y1, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 4:02pm
Another lovely afternoon spent with the Giraffes. We finished off our fabulous stretchy giraffes, they will look amazing in our classroom in September. We also made birthday cards, again, ready to hand out on birthdays next year.
Our Eco team class representatives are Reuben and Lucia , well done on creating some amazing posters. Our school parliament representatives are Harper S and Arley.
Mrs Regan and I are very excited to be teaching the Giraffes next year, definitely a fantastic tribe!
Take over day!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 3:42pm
The Year 1 ‘s enjoyed some new Y6 teachers yesterday, they were amazing! They taught English , Maths, drama and PE. The Lions loved it!!!
Treat Week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 9:53pm
Another week of fun and making lasting memories.
The week began with an Italian feast on Monday. Tuesday saw the children having fun at Leyland Leisure Centre taking part in a fun swim session. Wednesday involved a walk totalling around 2.5 miles to Hickory's in Hutton to fill ourselves with popcorn, milkshakes and pancakes. The children had so much fun, laughter filled the air when they took part in the whipped cream challange. It was hillarious and very, very messy. This afternoon was the traditional Year 6 water fight which resulted in more fun, laughter and very wet Meerkats.
What shall we do with a grumpy pirate?, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 9:50pm
Another busy week for our giraffes!
On Monday we started our new class story. However the children are still enjoying being pirates so we have plenty of role play, drama and singing opportunities for them all to enjoy.
A huge thank you for your wonderful maps which the children created for their homework. They all got to share their map and talk about it with their key worker group. They were very proud and so were we.
Tuesday was an exciting day with the afternoon spent in their new year one classroom. Mrs. Pratten had a lovely time with the giraffes and everyone came back with big smiles wanting to tell me all about it.
On Wednesday afternoon we performed our Tic Tac song on the stage in front of the whole school. The giraffes wore their bandanas ( recycled and painted blue, white and red for France) The children started by counting in French and then sang and danced confidently to everyone. It was a great performance. We loved watching all the amazing acts and we found it very difficult to vote at the end.
The children had their second road safety session today. After their class work, session last week and a session this morning the children crossed School Lane with their group leaders using the stop, look and listen rules. They were amazing listeners and remembered to look for a safe spot and to stand behind the kerb. They know to always hold hands with a grown up or hold onto a pram at all times on the footpaths. Well done giraffes!
The children have been voting this afternoon for their class compliment idea. Unfortunately I had to explain that I couldn’t hire a bouncy castle or take us all to the seaside but eventually we had a winner with 19 children voting for a dress up party (pirates, fancy dress or party clothes) party games and party food. I will confirm the date tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning we are walking to church to have a tour of the church by Father Sam. This is part of our RE work this half term. Please send coats with your child.
Thank you for your help and support,
Mrs.Thomson
Enterprise fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 12:40pm
The Lions had fun today icing and decorating with sweeties, mini muffins, ready for our enterprise tomorrow. It was fun and they look yummy!!
Fantastic Giraffes, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 28th Jun 2023 @ 8:10am
Thank you Giraffes for a lovely afternoon yesterday.
They enjoyed looking around the classroom, telling us what they like to do and making a start on a giraffe! We talked about what will be the same in Year 1 and what might be a little different.
We are looking forward to seeing them all again next week! ?
Fantastic Lion learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 4:55pm
This week, in Science, the children have continued to learn all about other minibeast that live in ponds and rock pools. In Geography we are being to learn the 4 countries that make up the UK and their capitals.
In English we have continued with our Fairytales, describing settings, villains and hero’s.Next week we will be rewriting a fairytae, adding in our own characters and changing the setting.
We loved using Scratch junior on the iPads, further developing our programming skills.
Next weeek we are looking forward to performing our Eurovision song, we are UK, singing Making your mind up by Bucks Fizz....if you get a spare minutes and fancy a boogie and helping the children with the words,,,,you can find it on Utube!,
Stratford Upon Avon, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 10:38am
Here are the photographs from our amazing residential. I hope they bring back lots of memories as you share them with your families.
Mighty mathematicians., by Mrs Thomson
Date: 21st Jun 2023 @ 4:58pm
The giraffes have been busy learning how to estimathe in maths this week. They have been working hard at writing their numbers and have been ordering larger numbers too. They have worked very hard with their partner and have been super mathematicians exploring, solving problems as well as revisiting their number bonds and doubles.
Ahoy there!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 21st Jun 2023 @ 4:41pm
Here are some lovely pictures to share of our time exploring over the last two weeks. During this time the children have been leading the life of a pirate. They have created maps, left secret notes in bottles, learnt some new language and have even adopted a new class parrot!
They have been amazing mathematicians looking at odd and even numbers as well estimating and looking at the patterns of larger numbers.
Our phonics work has kept the children busy as they have been given new sounds by the naughtifier! The sounds are ie (igh) ea (ee) and ay (ai) Please help your child to spot these sounds in their school books and your story books at home.
Please remember to send in sun hats and cream but also a light coat if possible just in case the showers come.
Thank you
Feeling hot, hot , hot!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 16th Jun 2023 @ 3:45pm
This week we have been hot on our learning!
In maths learning about quarters, in English acting out Fairytales, Cinderella, sequencing stories and using story language.
We also enjoyed dance form the heart and meeting Elsa,
Enjoy your weekend ?
A sunny first week back!, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 16th Jun 2023 @ 7:49am
Welcome back!
We have had such a lovely first week back and although it's been a very warm first week back, the children have kickstarted their final term of year 4 with a bang!
The tribe have kickstarted most of their final topics for year 4, including a comparison study of Italy in Geography alongside exploring a range of habitats in science and the living things that may live there. We danced with some Disney passion in Dance With The Heart.
They have shown resillience to working on time in maths, reading clock faces and converting to 12-hour and 24-hour, please keep practicing this at home! Reading clocks, both digital and analogue.
Thank you for a lovely first week back and have a lovely weekend.
Mr Kennedy & Mrs Jackson
Dance From the Heart, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 11:37am
The Meerkats have taken part in their last Dance from the Heart event and had a thoroughly fantastic time dancing and singing thier hearts out. This years theme was celebrating 100 years of Disney.
Class compliment, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th May 2023 @ 4:00pm
We enjoyed our well deserved class compliment today. An extra play on the scooters and bikes, an ice lolly and Tom and Jerry and a visit to the park, we loved it!!
Hope you all have a fabulous 2 weeks whatever your plans, enjoy this lovely weather ....but don’t forget reading, holiday passports ( if you can’t find do it on a piece of paper?) and a little bit of maths and grammar!
Have fun, stay safe ,see you all soon ?
Timetable competition!, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 26th May 2023 @ 2:53pm
Hello!
Over the break, Mr Kennedy has set up a healthy competitive tournament on Timetables Rockstar.
The children are very excited to explore TTRS even more and push their multiplications futher.
The winning tribe will be awarded a class compliment & 10 minutes extra break!
The tournament will also track effort - which a small prize will also be awarded.
Linked HERE is a video explaining TTRS.
Please be mindful of screen time with your child, I have limited the tournament to a maximum of 90 minutes per day, anything more than 90 minutes will not contribute to the overall competition.
Mr Kennedy.